They have endured even as the economies that have enforced budget cuts most strenuously have contracted, notably in Britain and in much of the rest of Europe.
Whereas most continental power providers, often state-backed, tied in supplies through long-term contracts (notably with Russia), British firms happily tapped the North Sea and planned to top up as necessary on the open market.
During World War II, Hughes's focus turned to military aircraft, and his company had several government contracts, notably for the Hughes XF-11 and the H-4 Hercules.
Private sector companies have won some substantial CHS contracts (notably Virgin Care with a £500m contract to run community health services in Surrey) but the wider picture has been revealed in new research from the Nuffield Trust which reports that around one third of NHS spending on CHS is now with non-NHS providers.
The arms sales figures coincide with the publication of a remarkable book that exposes the trickery, humbug, buck-passing, and cover-ups, by successive British governments as they turned a blind eye, and even encouraged, the payment of bribes to secure British arms contracts, notably with Saudi Arabia, and Iran under the Shah.
Key and McBride (2003) find that production contracts notably increase the productivity of US feeder-pig-to-finish hog operations.
I had the opportunity to sit in on several contract negotiations, notably NBC and Thirteen television networks.
And the giants of the internet are a new sort of customer: they are creating their own designs and buy from contract manufacturers, notably in Taiwan.
The PP said no; but it, and even the church, would accept a civil contract which, notably, would confer pension rights.
He created training-camp holdouts in tedious contract negotiations, notably with Taylor and Simms, but he preferred to blame the players' agents, especially agents he believed turned the player against the team.
This temporary unity was forged by a commonality of contract demands, notably a belief that the city owes these public servants more than it does, say, a Board of Elections clerk, because they put themselves on the line in situations that are at best tough and at worst hazardous.
